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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (6466)	2/25/2001 10:42:46 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Godless dorks? LOL Your effusive praise for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was not overblown. (At the time I figured it was) Saw it yesterday and its still very much with me. What a wonderful, magnificent movie!

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (6466)	2/25/2001 11:58:02 AM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 82486

hmmmm...interesting , more on cave paintings dating to the paleolithic : culture.fr for sunday diversions... you humans are funny creatures. ;-)

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (6466)	2/25/2001 6:44:50 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I would suggest you might want to rethink your position ...or at least trip the light fandango sometime down to Rio, Mexico City or Bogata... or 300 other major cities on earth that are becoming more squalid , polluted , and largely unlivable every day. And what percentage of the earth's surface do you think those 300 cities cover? I don't know the exact figure but its very small. The capacity of the earth isn't how many people we can fit on the earth (if it was then it would be at least a trillion) but how much our economy can support. That amount increases as technology improves. We would have a problem if population growth increase faster then economic growth and most specifically the growth in food supply but both of those are and have been increasing faster then population growth. Also as countries develop the birth rate goes down. In some of the richer countries it is less then the replacement rate. Even in many of the poorer countries it is decreasing. As long as the world's move towards free markets, free trade, and technological advancement are not interrupted the world will be ok in the long run. That doesn't stop there from being a lot of poverty and misery in some places before they can develop their economies. Tim